The ExpositorSamuel Cox, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt Hodder and Stoughton, 1883 |
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... Israel exercised the arts of soothsaying and divination , but even that these prophets " divined for money , " the very sin charged upon Balaam , -while yet they leaned upon Jehovah , and said , Is not Jehovah with us ? No evil can fall ...
... Israel exercised the arts of soothsaying and divination , but even that these prophets " divined for money , " the very sin charged upon Balaam , -while yet they leaned upon Jehovah , and said , Is not Jehovah with us ? No evil can fall ...
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... Israel , presents us with a problem as profound and perplexing as that of Balaam himself - a problem of which our great poet Browning has given us so admirable a study that I have often wondered why he has not made the Prophet of Pethor ...
... Israel , presents us with a problem as profound and perplexing as that of Balaam himself - a problem of which our great poet Browning has given us so admirable a study that I have often wondered why he has not made the Prophet of Pethor ...
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... Israel , " the Prince with God , " and from whom the whole seed of Abraham have derived their name , and perhaps something more than their name ? No candid student of his history can deny that even from the first Jacob THE CONCLUSION . 9.
... Israel , " the Prince with God , " and from whom the whole seed of Abraham have derived their name , and perhaps something more than their name ? No candid student of his history can deny that even from the first Jacob THE CONCLUSION . 9.
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... Israel was debauched , familiar , or at best not impossible to him . Is it difficult to find a parallel to that ? It would not be fair , though many would think it fair , to cite the example of David's well - known sin ; for no sin was ...
... Israel was debauched , familiar , or at best not impossible to him . Is it difficult to find a parallel to that ? It would not be fair , though many would think it fair , to cite the example of David's well - known sin ; for no sin was ...
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... Israel into the licentious idolatries of Midian , than did the Apostle who , in the hour of his Master's utmost need , denied all knowledge of Him , all concern in Him , with oaths and curses ? " Yes , " it may be said , " but Peter ...
... Israel into the licentious idolatries of Midian , than did the Apostle who , in the hour of his Master's utmost need , denied all knowledge of Him , all concern in Him , with oaths and curses ? " Yes , " it may be said , " but Peter ...
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Page 174 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Page 41 - The sons also- of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee ; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet ; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Page 226 - And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held ; and they cried with a loud voice, saying ; How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth...
Page 190 - The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry ? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Page 125 - Behold, O My people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
Page 238 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: but lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it : and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
Page 385 - Call his name Lo-ammi : for ye are not My people, and I will not be your God.
Page 222 - And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Page 97 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 218 - And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open the seals thereof : for thou wast slain, and didst purchase unto God with thy blood men of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation, and madest them to be unto our God a kingdom and priests; and they reign upon the earth.